When Victor Fontalvo left Colombia as a Ph.D. visitor to UAH on a Fulbright scholarship, he was surprised to find a familiar face upon his arrival – that of his former undergraduate student from the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia, Hernando Gonzalez, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at UAH. But far from being a coincidence, the pair’s presence on campus was in fact the fruition of a multiyear effort to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between the two universities.